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Updated: June 22, 2025
When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man. "The problem presents features of interest," said he. "I may even say exceptional features of interest. I have already looked into the matter, and have come, as I think, within sight of my solution.
But every man who has travelled in America has seen glimpses and episodes in that untold tale; and far away on the Red-Indian frontiers or in the hamlets in the hills of Pennsylvania, there are people whom I met for a few hours or for a few moments, whom I none the less sincerely like and respect because I cannot but smile as I think of them.
When I conducted the old man to his room I was struck, and made quite anxious, by the disconsolate expression of his face, and asked earnestly what was wrong. "Wrong!" he exclaimed, almost petulantly. "Everything's wrong. More particularly, you are wrong. Oh, George, I can't get over it. To think that you are tied hard and fast irrevocably to a red-Indian a painted savage a Hottentot.
They sit about in groups with Red-Indian gravity, as if passing the pipe of peace; though, in fact, most of them are smoking cigars and some of them are eating cigars. The latter strikes me as one of the most peculiar of transatlantic tastes, more peculiar than that of chewing gum.
Running the Gauntlet Across the Line Mischief ahead-Preparations A Night March The Steamer captured The Pursuit-Daylight The Lower Fort The Red-Indian at last The Chief's Speech A Big Feed Making ready for the Winnipeg A Delay I visit Fort Garry Mr. President Riel The Final Start-Lake Winnipeg The First Night out My Crew.
Kirkbride, our neighbor, about this time, a shambling, peaceful, half-witted goat of a man, was one such; and a perfect red-Indian upon a trail. It was Mary who spotted him. He hung about our kitchen door a good deal; and tried to make friends with her and sympathize with her. But he showed himself a jot too eager, and then a jot too peppery when she did not fall into his nets.
In the region of the Great Lakes fish were caught in large quantities in October, and exposed to the weather to be frozen at nighttime. They were then stored away in this congealed state, and lasted good more or less till the following April. Pemmican that early form of potted meat so familiar to the readers of Red-Indian romances was made of the lean meat of the bison.
Reliefs crawled up with more gloves, and even with tins of hot cocoa. Then through the gap into the German trenches, and there were screams of German soldiers, terror-shaken by the flash of light in their eyes, and black faces above them, and bayonets already red with blood. It was butcher's work, quick and skilful, like red-Indian scalping.
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